Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner and Letter to John Singer Sargent from Gordon Fairchild
correspondent
John Singer Sargent
(Florence, 1856 - 1925, London)
Date20 August 1916
Place MadeBritish Columbia, Canada, North America
MediumInk on paper
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.004825
eMuseum ID727359
Other NumberU27w311
EmbARK ObjectID30752
TMS Source ID14332
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner and painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) were close friends for decades. The two exchanged many letters, and almost two hundred of Sargent’s letters are preserved in the Museum archives. In this letter from the summer of 1916, Sargent writes from “Camping Somewhere in the Yoho Valley, British Columbia” where he was on one of his habitual sketching trips. Despite his remote location in the Canadian wilderness, Sargent dedicates most of this letter to a single subject: flamenco records that he suggests Gardner purchase.
BibliographyNotesDiana Seave Greenwald, "Spanish Music, South Korean Choreographers, and the Museum Archives," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 15 April 2020, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/spanish-music-south-korean-choreographers-and-museum-archives
MarksNotesInscribed in pencil (recto, upper left): 64 / 1916
Inscribed in pencil (recto, upper right): 81
Inscribed in pencil (envelope, upper left): 64 / 1916 / with note from Gordon Fairchild
Inscribed in pencil (envelope, upper right): 81
Inscribed in pencil (recto, upper right): 81
Inscribed in pencil (envelope, upper left): 64 / 1916 / with note from Gordon Fairchild
Inscribed in pencil (envelope, upper right): 81
ProvenanceNotesLetter from John Singer Sargent to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 20 August [1916], on a letter from Gordon Fairchild to John Singer Sargent, 20 July, 1916.
